Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i7-7700K vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700K is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-7700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700K. The Core i5-1235U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.